Patents by Inventor Alexander D'Anci

Alexander D'Anci has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230198119
    Abstract: The system for a collapsible direction finding antenna. The antenna comprising a rigid central portion and a plurality of foldable arms. The antenna is aerial/kite lifted once launched from a tube to provide increased line of sight above a surface. The antennas being launchable from a UUV, a user in the field, and the like. The antenna being a full azimuth direction finding antenna. In some cases, operating at a wide matched frequency of 1 to 6 GHz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Johnson, James F. FUNG, William K. Grefe
  • Patent number: 11682822
    Abstract: The system for a collapsible direction finding antenna. The antenna comprising a rigid central portion and a plurality of foldable arms. The antenna is aerial/kite lifted once launched from a tube to provide increased line of sight above a surface. The antennas being launchable from a UUV, a user in the field, and the like. The antenna being a full azimuth direction finding antenna. In some cases, operating at a wide matched frequency of 1 to 6 GHz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Johnson, James F. Fung, William K. Grefe
  • Patent number: 11679044
    Abstract: A powered balancing mobility device that can provide the user the ability to safely navigate expected environments of daily living including the ability to maneuver in confined spaces and to climb curbs, stairs, and other obstacles, and to travel safely and comfortably in vehicles. The mobility device can provide elevated, balanced travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: DEKA Products Limited Partnership
    Inventors: Stewart M. Coulter, Brian G. Gray, Dirk A. van der Merwe, Susan D. Dastous, Daniel F. Pawlowski, Dean Kamen, David B. Doherty, Matthew A. Norris, Alexander D. Streeter, David J. Couture, Matthew B. Kinberger, Catharine N. Flynn, Elizabeth Rousseau, Thomas A. Doyon, Ryan Adams, Prashant Bhat, Bob Peret
  • Publication number: 20230185608
    Abstract: The present invention includes embodiments of systems and methods for facilitating users’ selection of compute infrastructure options that satisfy predefined performance goals. The integrated, multi-provider cloud-based platform of the present invention employs abstraction layers for communicating with and integrating the resources of multiple back-end hardware providers, multiple software providers and multiple license servers. These abstraction layers and associated functionality free users not only from having to implement and configure provider-specific protocols, but also from having to address interdependencies among selected hardware, software and license servers on a job-level basis or at other levels of granularity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventors: Gregorius E. Poort, Mulyanto W. Poort, Ryan A. Kaneshiro, Adam C. McKenzie, Alexander D. Kudlick, Mark G. Whitney, Alexander P. Huang, Dongting Yu, Christopher Langel, Eric Llorente, Hyderuddin Mohammad, Junwen Li
  • Patent number: 11675519
    Abstract: The embodiments set forth techniques for facilitating processing checkpoints between computing devices. A method can be performed by at least one first computing device configured to interface with a first server computing device cluster, and include (1) processing objects managed by the first server computing device cluster, where the objects are stored across at least two first partitions associated with the first server computing device cluster, (2) detecting a condition to facilitate a processing checkpoint with at least one second computing device configured to interface with a second server computing device cluster, where the objects are mirrored—but stored differently across at least two second partitions associated with the second server computing device cluster, (3) gathering, from each partition of the at least two first partitions, information associated with a particular number of last-processed objects, and (4) providing the information to the at least one second computing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Krishna G. Pai, Alexander D. Holmes, M. Mansur Ashraf, Alaukik Aggarwal
  • Publication number: 20230178895
    Abstract: A stacked patch antenna is expandable from a thinner stowed configuration in which the gaps between the conductor layers are reduced, to a thicker deployed configuration in which the gaps are expanded to their required dimensions. The expansion mechanism can include rotation of threaded rods, pneumatic expansion of telescoping rods, and/or injection of a gas, a chemical sublimate, and/or an expandable foam into the gaps. In embodiments, the stowed thickness of the antenna can be approximately equal to the sum of the thicknesses of the conductor panels. In some of these embodiments high dielectric layers are not included. In other of these embodiments high dielectric layers are formed by filling gaps with a high dielectric foam. Embodiments implement aperture coupling to the stacked patch antenna. An array of the stacked patch antennae can be folded about a satellite until deployment, and can be planar when unfolded and deployed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: BAE SYSTEMS Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Johnson, Jonathan E. Epstein, Jacob Tamasy
  • Patent number: 11661466
    Abstract: Catalyst systems and methods for making and using the same. A method of methylating a catalyst composition while substantially normalizing the entiomeric distribution is provided. The method includes slurrying the organometallic compound in dimethoxyethane (DME), and adding a solution of RMgBr in DME, wherein R is a methyl group or a benzyl group, and wherein the RMgBr is greater than about 2.3 equivalents relative to the organometallic compound. After the addition of the RMgBr, the slurry is mixed for at least about four hours. An alkylated organometallic is isolated, wherein the methylated species has a meso/rac ratio that is between about 0.9 and about 1.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Univation Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Francis C. Rix, Alexander D. Todd, C. Jeff Harlan
  • Patent number: 11663182
    Abstract: System, methods, and apparatuses for an artificial intelligence (AI) toy with improved conversational dialogue and personality development. The AI toy determines responses to stimuli based on user profiles and personality profiles that are developed through user interaction and external media inputs. Natural Language Processing (NLP) and other semantic interaction processing is paired with the profiles to develop AI personality and conversational ability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Inventors: Maria Emma, Gregory Alexander D'Amico
  • Patent number: 11652299
    Abstract: A tightly coupled dipole array is an egg-crate configuration defined by a plurality of electrically connected antenna unit cells. At least one of the unit cells utilizes a short or conductive element that shorts the common mode resonance. Shorting the common mode resonance in an intentional manner removes instances of the common mode resonance. To achieve the shorting of the common mode resonance, a conductive element is connected with one of the dipole arms and connected to the outer conductor of the feed or a ground plane. This creates a grounding loop that pushes the resonance out of the band of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Inc.
    Inventors: Matilda Livadaru, Mark Fosberry, James F. Fung, Alexander D. Johnson, Randall R. Lapierre, Daniel G. Morin
  • Patent number: 11648106
    Abstract: This disclosure features artificial tympanic membrane graft devices and two-component bilayer graft devices that include a scaffold having a plurality of ribs made of a first material and a plurality of spaces between the ribs filled or made with the first material, a different, second material, a combination of the first and a second materials, or a combination of a second material and one or more other different materials. The bilayer graft devices have two components or layers. One component, e.g., the underlay graft device, can include a projection, and the second component, e.g., the overlay graft device, can include an opening that corresponds to the projection (or vice versa) so that the opening and the projection can secure the two layers together in a “lock and key” manner. This disclosure also features methods of making, using, and implanting the three-dimensional artificial tympanic membrane and bilayer graft devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignees: Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Aaron K. Remenschneider, Elliott Kozin, Nicole Leah Black, Michael J. McKenna, Daniel J. Lee, Jennifer A. Lewis, John Rosowski, David B. Kolesky, Mark A. Skylar-Scott, Alexander D. Valentine
  • Publication number: 20230145600
    Abstract: A method of assessing post SARS infection based neurological injuries using a quantitative, noninvasive, clinical objective, oculomotor, vestibular, reaction time, and cognitive response assessment protocol for evaluating post SARS infection based neurological injuries. The method comprises the steps of: coupling a VOG/VNG system to a subject wherein the VOG/VNG system is configured to present a plurality of Oculomotor, vestibular, reaction time, and cognitive tests to the subject; presenting a plurality of Oculomotor, vestibular, reaction time, and cognitive tests to the subject on the VOG/VNG system; obtaining objective physiologic responses of the patient from the plurality of Oculomotor, vestibular, reaction time, and cognitive tests to the subject via the VOG/VNG system; and using a plurality of the objective physiologic responses of the patient to assess post SARS infection based neurological injuries in the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventor: Alexander D. Kiderman
  • Patent number: 11635476
    Abstract: A mobile robot includes a body movable over a surface within an environment, a calibration coil carried on the body and configured to produce a calibration magnetic field, a sensor circuit carried on the body and responsive to the calibration magnetic field, and a controller carried on the body and in communication with the sensor circuit. The sensor circuit is configured to generate calibration signals based on the calibration magnetic field. The controller is configured to calibrate the sensor circuit as a function of the calibration signals, thereby resulting in a calibrated sensor circuit configured to detect a transmitter magnetic field within the environment and to generate detection signals based on the transmitter magnetic field. The controller is configured to estimate a pose of the mobile robot as a function of the detection signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: iRobot Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander D. Kleiner, Nikolai Romanov, Frederic D. Hook
  • Patent number: 11634381
    Abstract: Provide herein are compounds with a general chemical structure of: Substituents R1 and R2 independently are H, Cl, F, Br, CH3, CF3, SH, —N(C1-3alkyl)2, —NHC(O)C1-3alkyl, or —NHC(O)C5-7cycloalkyl, substituent R3 is H or C1-3 alkyl and R4 is a bridged cycloalkene such as a bridged cyclohexene or a bridge-substituted cyclohexene. The compounds are therapeutics to treat a cancer, such as breast cancer, or metastatic cancers, to inhibit RUNX2 activity, such as protein expression, in a cancer cell and to increase survival of a subject with breast cancer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignees: University of Maryland, Baltimore, The United States of America as Represented by the Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventors: Antonino Passaniti, Alexander D. MacKerell, Jr.
  • Publication number: 20230117928
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining movement of a robot are provided. A computing system of the robot receives information including an initial state of the robot and a goal state of the robot. The computing system determines, using nonlinear optimization, a candidate trajectory for the robot to move from the initial state to the goal state. The computing system determines whether the candidate trajectory is feasible. If the candidate trajectory is feasible, the computing system provides the candidate trajectory to a motion control module of the robot. If the candidate trajectory is not feasible, the computing system determines, using nonlinear optimization, a different candidate trajectory for the robot to move from the initial state to the goal state, the nonlinear optimization using one or more changed parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Boston Dynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: C. Dario Bellicoso, Logan W. Tutt, Neil M. Neville, Alexander D. Perkins
  • Publication number: 20230122528
    Abstract: The systems described herein provide a remote keyboard service for a media device on a computing device without having to invoke an application or unlock the computing device. The computing device can receive a message indicating that a text input field on the other device is selected and present a notification to the user prompting the user to invoke the virtual keyboard on the computing device to provide text input to the selected text input field. The computing device can receive user input selecting the notification and present a virtual keyboard for providing text input to the other device. The computing device can receive keyboard input from the user selecting characters and send the characters to the other device. The other device can then user the characters as text input to the selected text input field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Sanciangco, Bob Bradley, Marc Krochmal, Graham Clarke
  • Publication number: 20230117453
    Abstract: The present invention includes embodiments of systems and methods for addressing the interdependencies that result from integrating the computing resources of multiple hardware and software providers. The integrated, multi-provider cloud-based platform of the present invention employs abstraction layers for communicating with and integrating the resources of multiple back-end hardware providers, multiple software providers and multiple license servers. These abstraction layers and associated functionality free users not only from having to implement and configure provider-specific protocols, but also from having to address interdependencies among selected hardware, software and license servers on a job-level basis or at other levels of granularity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Gregorius E. Poort, Mulyanto W. Poort, Ryan A. Kaneshiro, Adam C. McKenzie, Alexander D. Kudlick, Mark G. Whitney, Alexander P. Huang, Dongting Yu
  • Publication number: 20230110081
    Abstract: A system and methods are provided for using order descriptor identifiers in relation to orders being used in trading strategies. According to one example method, when a hedge order is submitted upon detecting a fill of another order, the hedge order includes one or more order descriptor identifiers conveying a purpose of the hedge order to a user. The order descriptor identifiers can be used to search for desired orders and perform more effective order management and post trade analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Alexander D. DEITZ, Sagy Pundak MINTZ
  • Publication number: 20230109130
    Abstract: Methods and systems for capture object-based assays, including for determining a measure of the concentration of an analyte molecule or particle in a fluid sample, are described. The methods and systems may relate to high sensitivity detection of analytes, sometimes using assay conditions and sample handling that result in the capture and detection of a high percentage of the analyte molecules or particles in a fluid sample using relatively few capture objects. Apparatuses and methods for immobilizing capture objects with respect to assay sites, in some instances with unexpectedly high efficiencies are also described. Some such apparatuses involve the use of force fields and fluid meniscus forces, alone or in combination, to facilitate or improve capture object immobilization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Applicant: Quanterix Corporation
    Inventors: David C. Duffy, Nicholas Collier, Cheuk W. Kan, Carmen I. Tobos, David M. Rissin, Alexander D. Wiener, Ray Meyer, Christopher Warwick, Roger Millington, Danielle M. Svancara
  • Patent number: D987778
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Inter-Med, Inc.
    Inventors: John Baeten, Alexander D. Johnson
  • Patent number: D987931
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: VersaBuilt, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander D. Youngwerth, Albert James Youngwerth, Benjamin Thomas Blaine